8:25 AM,
May 6, 2012

Town of Stanford Highway Department garage is still under construction. Photographed on Thursday, March 29, 2012.

Written by

Susan Campriello
Poughkeepsie Journal

In the first budget under the state's 2 percent cap on property tax levy increases, only seven of the 22 municipalities in Dutchess County came in at or below the cap without exemptions, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal investigation.

However, of the 15 municipalities above the 2 percent growth in the tax levy, 10 of them said that with exemptions approved by the state, they came in under the threshold. The five that didn't were Clinton, Hyde Park, Red Hook, Stanford and Union Vale. Their levy increases ranged from 4.94 percent in Stanford to 19.95 percent in Hyde Park.